If Chrome is your browser of choice and you’d like to streamline an everyday task, chances are there’s an app for that. Or in this case, an extension.

The world of SEO is no exception, and in my five years in the business I’ve collected and discarded more Chrome extensions than I can shake a well-optimised stick at. Here’s my rundown of a dozen that stood the test of time, with one super-useful tool that everyone needs in their life.

Anyone who performs SEO audits on a regular basis should have this in their arsenal.

Click the handy toolbar icon and the extension will crawl every link on the page and label it with the relevant response code. The only drawback is that the tool can be slightly impatient, resulting in a disproportionate amount of 408 errors.

To continue the super hero theme, PageRank is to SEO what Aquaman is to the Justice League. However, if you really want to know the PR of your page, SEO for Chrome will give you this information, along with a host of more meaningful metrics.

This is the latest addition to my collection and one of my favourites. This extension takes the mystery out of all those social referrals and helps people notice when you’ve shared their page.

This is a little complicated so I’ll quote the official site: “Credited can detect which web analytics provider or software a web page uses, then tags up the shared URL with your Twitter handle, name, website or anything you like. You’ll become a named traffic referrer in the website’s analytics reports.”

This is potentially great for relationship building, but relies on mass adoption to realise its true potential.

If you have too much to read and too little time, Pocket’s Chrome extension is going to change your life.

Essentially a ‘read it later’ service, you can click a button in the toolbar and Pocket will save the content from whichever page you’re browsing at the time, allowing you to return to it at your leisure on your iOS device or at getpocket.com.

Even better, the app works offline as long as you’ve downloaded the content to your phone before you set off on your wifi-less train journey.

Link builders everywhere rejoice – Scraper is here to rescue lost research hours. Right-click any Google result, hit ‘scrape similar’ and this extension will export all data from the entire SERP to a Google doc.

PRO TIP: paste the URLs from the Google doc into Netpeak Checker and you can get all the data from Majestic, OSE and almost any other third-party software you might subscribe to.

This article was written by Matt Fielding. Matt is SEO Manager at Custard, a digital marketing agency from the UK helping businesses improve their online performance through SEO and PPC. You can connect with Matt on Twitter – @MattFieldingSEO